{"id":6673,"date":"2013-05-13T17:35:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T22:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hwt.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/internal\/blog\/?p=6673"},"modified":"2013-05-13T17:35:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T22:35:57","slug":"6673","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2013\/05\/13\/6673\/","title":{"rendered":"An opportunity to examine the new HSDA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally have a storm with decent returns aloft that gives us a chance to investigate the new HSDA (Hail Size Discrimination Algorithm).\u00a0 The image is a four panel from FSI.\u00a0 Note the bottom left panel showing a cross section of the storm.\u00a0 The red color is the usual dual-pol rain\/hail mix signature.\u00a0 The purple between 20 and 25 thousand feet is one of the new hail levels&#8230;in this case, indicating &#8220;large&#8221; (between 1 and 2 inch diameter) hail.\u00a0 Of course, with the warm and dry surface layer across much of the area, this hail would likely have a hard time surviving to the surface.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see if we get any hail reports from this storm, but from what I saw to this point, I would be hard pressed to warn on this storm&#8230;perhaps an SPS for non-severe hail would be in order.<\/p>\n<p>CL<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2013\/05\/FSI_HCA_051313_2230.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6674\" alt=\"FSI_HCA_051313_2230\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2013\/05\/FSI_HCA_051313_2230-1024x881.png\" width=\"584\" height=\"502\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally have a storm with decent returns aloft that gives us a chance to investigate the new HSDA (Hail Size Discrimination Algorithm).\u00a0 The image is a four panel from FSI.\u00a0&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2013\/05\/13\/6673\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":215,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}